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Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income … education. Overall, these patterns suggest that fostering high school completion may help slow down the worsening of …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …
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personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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access to quality education in neighborhoods with high house prices. In a dynamic life-cycle model with neighborhood choice …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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